What is the relationship between storms and rain?

There have been several studies which have explored the relationship between cloud-to-ground lightning and rainfall. These studies have ... The greatest concentration of CG strikes (57% of the total storm CG strikes) produced just over half of the total volumetric precipitation over only 16% of the area that received rainfall. read more

Application Example 10 (Joint, marginal and conditional distributions) RELATION BETWEEN STORM DURATION AND PRECIPITATION INTENSITY Hydrologists are much interested in the statistical characteristics of precipitation events. read more

The root of all weather is the Sun, which heats the Earth. The heating is uneven, because of night and day, because different surfaces (such as rocks and trees) absorb and reflect sunlight in different amounts, and because sunlight hits the equator more directly than the poles. read more

Storm is a see also of rain. As nouns the difference between storm and rain is that storm is any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather while rain is condensed water falling from a cloud. read more

Weather is what’s happening outside the door right now; today a thunderstorm is approaching. read more

Warm, high pressure air has the ability to contain a larger overall amount of water vapor as a constituent gas. When you drop temperature or decrease pressure you are reducing the amount of air that can be composed of water vapor. read more